Re: Next Triage day - Targets ?
| From: | Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson | Date: | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:53:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Next Triage day - Targets ? | ||
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Hello everyone,
So I can assume there is no interest and we can blow it off ?
Regards
Helgi
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson
<helgith@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> So I've changed the google calendar so that we have a two day triage
> every 3 weeks as a new experiment to see how things will go.
> Now what I want to do is try something different, as we talked about
> in previous emails, we need a direction, a target and the target I've
> chosen is SOAP.
>
> Now people might ask, why SOAP - Well it's the second highest bug
> package we have, it´s easy to work on and easy to write tests for and
> well Jan S is still around to assist :)
> Hopefully he'll want to show up for one of the bug days to be with in
> reach to help people.
> I've been spending some of my time on SOAP lately and on previous bug
> triages, what I've done so far is to convert the old "tests" into
> proper phpt and also Jan and I have been writing tests for bugs we've
> solved and also tests for bugs yet to be solved.
>
> We have two focuses now 1) write tests for bugs 2) write general tests
> (see parser.phpt for example) 3) fix code and well if someone is
> really bored, write docs and examples :)
>
> Do note this is a PHP 4 package and is mainly meant to work on PHP 4
> so no funny business, we have the SOAP ext for PHP 5 :-P
> Also if you write tests do look at some of the old ones, we had to do
> some fun fun fun regex and expectf to deal with different var_dump
> outputs between php 4 and 5 ;-)
>
> Anyway let me know guys if this is feasible, since I'm sure people
> don't want to tackle the excel writer just yet! :-) (hard to write
> tests for and multiple apps we need to test on *sigh*)
>
> P.S.
> A second idea for those that don't want to tackle SOAP, look at all
> report with lower bug idea than 10.000 - those are our OLLLLD ones,
> everything above 10.000 is since Feb 2007 and we only have below 140
> pieces of those old buggers :-)
>
> Regards
> Helgi
>